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WEEKEND WALK Beatle Redwood Canyon Cool, Alluring By DON and PHILA WITHEKELL ridges, broadleaf forests and a cool canyon filled with ferns and redwoods are among the diverse delights which await the hiker in Redwood Regional Park. The park, located in the hills east of Oakland, has an interesting history and a network of well-marked trails to satisfy the most discriminating weekend walker. This walk, a two and one- half mile circuit, begins at the Skyline entrance at the north end. You may reach Skyline Boulevard from Warren Free- tllM Road exit. Follow Joaquin Miller Road to Skyline Boulevard, turn left and continue about two miles past the Roberts Recreation area until you see the Skyline Gate sign and parking area.

Begin by taking the trail to the left which is marked East Ridge Trail. The first mile of the trail follows a ridge, leisurely descending through a mixed forest of small Eucalyptus, mostly Red Gum and Monterey Pine. Both of these trees have been introduced from other places. they are such a prominent feature of the East Bay Hills that they must be considered as important forest communities in their own right. are a number of plants that bloom in late spring.

The Cow Parsnip, with its large leaves and numerous white flowers in umbels (a broad flat-topped cluster) is at its peak now. The plants, four to five feet high, prefer northern exposure, facing slopes or the brushy places which are prevalent along this section of the trail. Indians, who previously inhabited the area relished the tender shoots that appear in early spring. Brightening the roadway itself is the beautiful Sun-cup. Its profuse gold blooms rise from an improbable base of weedy-looking a that grow prostrate to the soil.

Blooming, too, are the sprawling wild cucumber and the omnipresent blackberry which grows in tangled thickets and in summer produces the succulent fruits sought after by birds and hikers. al views through the trees of Mt Diablo, with the hills above Moraga Valley in the foreground, and glimpses over Redwood Canyon to its richly dad slopes, the real panora- pm is reserved for the area viewed shortly before the Mill Trail tumoff. At this point the jrovts of Eucalyptus and Pine are left behind and you have a clear view from the ridge to all directions Ahead, toe trail, a pale ribbon that rises and then disappears, ends three miles beyond at Pinehurst Road at the park's south end. Take the Mill Trail, which is marked with a green park sign, and follow the trail as it descends steeply into the canyon to your right. Dense stands of live Oak and Madrone shade the roadway, their wonderfully curved limbs and trunks rising out of a lush understory of woodland plants.

The Madrone is perhaps ihe handsomest tree in this broadleaf forest with its finely sculpted red limbs and thick glossy leaves. You may still see a few flowers, white waxen bells shaped like diminutive lanterns. The limbs carry clusters of new leaves now and the old scarred leaves ravaged by a year of seasons will turn cinnamon and drop off to carpet the forest floor. Listen for the staccato drumming ot the Acorn Woodpecker as he embellishes an oak trunk with round holes. At the bottom of the canyon, Mill Trail intersects Stream Trail.

Turn right and begin the homeward portion of the loop which wil bring you through a stand of second growth Redwood. This is a with the odor of where silence is enriched by the languid sounds of a small a and the ascending flute-song of the reclusive Swainson's Thrush. Luxuriant ferns the steep slopes above the stream. The graceful Hazel Bush lends a lighthearted delicacy to the shade. The thin- toothed leaves are arranged on slender limbs in a horizontal manner enabling them to capture the meager light that filters through the trees.

Imagine, it you can, that in this place once grew great redwoods that equaled or perhaps surpassed in size the giants of the north coast. Ships entering the Golden Gate in the early days used these lofty spires as a navigational aid. With the Gold Rush came a sudden increase in population and the demand for housing. The San Antonio Redwoods, as this grove was called, fell was used to help build San Francisco and then later Benicia. Mission San Jose and other communities.

By I860 only stumps remained. Not a single tree had been spared for posterity. The trail climbs out of the canyon bringing you once again Miy 24,1969 23-E Loco Weed Tea Kills Hippie Youth LONDON (UP1) Bcath: John Lennon said yesterday he and his Japanese bride. Yoko, will stage their second "bed-in for peace" this time a seven-day marathon ostensibly for the benefit of American audiences. Lennon said the couple will leave Saturday for the Bahama Islands because he has been barred from entering the United States because of a conviction for drug possession and Bahama is the closest British possession to the United States.

"The U.S. needs us," Lennon said. "This is the right time for nonviolent people to SOMBER SHADE OF THE REDWOODS ALONG THE STREAM TRAIL Cool canyon pathway awaits hikers in Redwood Regional Park Lennon tried to leave last week for the United States but officials declined to issue a visa because of the drug conviction. The Lennons intend to stay in bed for a week as they did in Amsterdam shortly after their March marriage. He said the bed-in is designed to show that "the world needs more love and less violence." Greeks Jail Economist ATHENS (UPI) A military tribunal yesterday sentenced Vassillios Filias, 41, a leading economist, to 18 years in jail for anti-regime activities.

The prosecution contended he headed a clandestine organization called "Democratic defense," which it described as Communist and anarchic. TWENTY NINE PALMS (UPli-- Loco weed tea killed a 24-year-old hippie and hospitalized his -a girl friend when they apparently drank the brew to experience hallucinations, the sheriff's office reported today. Timothy Hollis Reda, who drifted to this desert community from the Haight Ashbury District in San Francisco, was found Thursday night sitting upright in a "meditating hole'' in the backyard of a home in which he and Elaine Mrrie Hrdy lived. Dcpuilfb SiJIU illftft I i who told officers that was how her name was spelled but pronounced "Hardy," was conscious but hallucinating badly. She was taken to Victorville Hospital where her stomach was pumped.

She said they had brewed the leaves of jimson weed, one of several plants known as loco weed and which the dictionary says is "intensely poisonous," earlier in the day. Miss Hrdy indicated they had drunk the tea before, but apparently in not as large a quantity nor so strong a brew. Deputies said they have recently come across five or six cases of youngsters apparently drinking loco weed tea and appearing as if they were under the influence of LSD. Bui they believed Reda's death was the firs) to result from the practice. Two other persons lived in the home besides the afflicted couple--Karen I Hicks, about IS, of Escondido, and Hall Kevin Baker.

23. of Canoga Park. They and Miss Hrdy were booked on suspicion of cultivating marijuana which deputies said they found growing at the residence. Jimson weed is common to the desert. Naturalist Eldon A.

Wamrow said there is enough poison in one plant to kill several adults. He said the hallucinogen in the plant can- into the mixed environment of a a a grassland and woodland. Birds, which seem to prefer the forest edges rather than their dense interior, are again prevalent and in fine voice. To the left close to the trail grow several groups of Horsetail Rushes, They are what botanists call prehistoric endemics, or plants left over from a distant era. Once they grew 40 feet high forming forests that in their decay were important contributors to the coal beds.

About a half mile before the a i ends you will pass through a girls' camp. Available there are water, picnic tables and restrooms. A final uphill wack brings you back to the parking area. If you are curious about the plants that prow here in varied abundance you will enjoy two field guides both published by the University of California Press costing $1.50 each. They are Native Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region" by Metcalf, and "Native Shrubs of the San Francisco Bay Region" by Ferris.

Genetic Intelligence Tests Rejected Again 3 REGIONAL PARK Antioch to Host Treasure Hunt By JEN'KIN LLOYD JONES Editor, the Tulsa Tribune On April 29, by a show of hands in closed session, members of the National Academy of 'Sciences voted 200 to 10 against conducting any inquiry into possible inherent or genetic inferiority of intelligence among groups of American children, most particularly the children of "hard-core chronic reliefers and apparent This is the third straight year that the national academy, composed of 850 distinguished scientists chartered as advisers to the U.S. government, has turned down such a proposal. Is the academy in this matter exhibiting a spirit of free scientific inquiry or is it putting on a display of inflexible dogma? In supporting the turn-down, Dr. Frederick Seitz, president of the adademy, said, "It is essentially impossible to do good research in this field as long as there are such great social inequities. And such research is also so easily misunderstood in these times." Well, what does he really think that the subject is not capable of being scientifically investigated or that the results might be misinterpreted? There's a vast difference.

The investigation was proposed by Dr. William Shockley of Stanford, one of the inventors of the transistor and a Nobel Prize i i t. He wanted to know if there is danger in down-breeding the American intelligence average through the proliferation difficulty in coping with their environments. Dr. Shockley's question was received with all the cordiality that met a heretical question before the Spanish Inquisition.

He was lucky to have escaped the pit and the pendulum For it is the current dogma of "liberalism" that while there are undoubtedly individual differences in intelligence, no one who loves his fellow man can entertain the unthinkable thought that there can be any genetic differences involving groups. You can't be a humanitarian, according to this theory, without embracing as an article of faith the conviction that all general differences are the result of environment and that great leaps forward can be achieved by simply improving the environment. Oddly, this is a very new idea. Until a generation ago most scientists were willing to concede that since both the Australian bushmen and the Children of Israel came out of roughly similar environments something else must explain the vast difference in their contributions civilization and their ability to grasp new ideas and new technologies. Contrary to Dr.

Seitz' plea that this question cannot be properly investigated because of -'social inequities," there is no reason why the effect of improved housing, improved neighborhoods and improved schooling upon the IQs of children cannot be measurable. If environment is as important as the dogma doggedly maintains, then these offspring of tiie "hard-core" who have been moved into dramat- ir-pllv envirnnmorttc should show quick improvements. If long-standing social patterns of thought and behavior are the cause of the trouble, then these control groups should show slower but still steady increases in mental power. The refusal by these eminent scientists to even look into the matter has a hollow ring. There is no kindness in perpetuating delusion, however kindly it is meant.

The mother who is told that her dull child may become bright if it is bused across town could be the victim of a cruel fraud. The professors who seem masochistically eager to see their colleges deluged with unprepared students from the ghettos may be promoting disappointment. These professors have traditionally demanded higher and i entrance standards. Now, if they are sure that the very environment of college will automaticaly prepare for the disciplines of college work ill-prepared black newcomers, then they are guilty of discrimination against generations of ill-prepared white stu- dents whom they cheerfully kept out. And if the new ghetto students stare blankly at the blackboard, explode in frustration and Old Main, whose fault is it? The way to uplift and social does not lie in schemes based on rigid preconceptions which the proponents are unwilling to have tested.

medieval alchemists were convinced that by the proper incantations base met- ai coum DC turned into goici. Modern science didn't begin until men were willing to test the nature of materials. Is the National Academy of Sciences going back to alchemy? Copr. T-M 1W7, Gen. Fea.

Corp. District Attorney Named as Judge SACRAMENTO (UPI)-Gov. Ronald Reagan yesterday named James K. Turner, Orange County district attorney, as a municipal court judge in the West Orange County Judicial District. Turner, 40.

Laguna Beach, succeeded Judge Harmon Scoville who was elevated to the Superior Court. The post pays $28,126 annually. Turner is a Republican. BORN IN MAY? FUEE-flne Birthday Dinner trim 7 p.m. trten iccompaiierf by Mist skiw I.D.

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